When Yang-shan Hui-chi (807-883), as a young monk, paid a visit to the Ch'an master Hsing-k'ung, there was a monk who asked Hsing-k'ung:
-What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?
Hsing-k'ung replied:
-Suppose...
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A novel approach to peace - talking about it and no sign of it - never looked me in the eyes once. Must be something to do with the kind of thinking you do here. Yes, it must be very tiring, very wearing.